One month after being arrested on six charges related to her grooming young girls for sex with the late billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, the bad news continued for Ghislaine Maxwell on Friday, when prosecutors announced that more charges could be coming against her.

“As the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York has stated publicly, the investigation into the conduct of the defendant in this case and other possible co-conspirators of Jeffrey Epstein remains active,” prosecutors wrote in a court filing obtained by Fox News. “The full scope and details of that investigation, however, have not been made public.”

The filing went on to say that prosecutors obtained Maxwell’s 2016 deposition in a defamation lawsuit that her lawyers are fighting to keep from public view, explaining that they used this deposition to charge the 58 year-old British socialite with perjury.

This comes weeks after Maxwell’s attorneys claimed to have received “critical new information” from the criminal case against their client to block the release of the deposition. Prosecutors responded by saying that the release of information Maxwell wants to put forth could harm their investigation that is still ongoing.

“It would be grossly inappropriate for defense counsel to be permitted to sift through the criminal case discovery and cherry-pick materials they may believe could provide some advantage in their efforts to defend against accusations of abuse by victim plaintiffs, delay court-ordered disclosure of previously sealed materials, or any other legal effort the defendant may be undertaking at any particular time,” the prosecutors wrote.

Maxwell’s legal team indicated that lawyers for Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Epstein’s alleged former sex slave, provided the deposition to prosecutors, which violates a protective order in the civil case. Prosecutors said in their filing that they had asked two courts to allow the recipient of the material to turn it over. Though one court declined to give permission, the other did, but Maxwell was not told that authorities were seeking the material.

“That is how grand jury subpoenas and investigations frequently work,” prosecutors wrote. “Defense counsel’s overheated rhetoric notwithstanding, there is simply nothing nefarious about the government obtaining materials through grand jury subpoena process, let alone anything about the manner in which the government obtained these materials that warrant the relief requested.”

Maxwell is currently incarcerated at a prison in New York City, where she has been remanded to await her July of 2021 trial after a judge deemed her to be a significant flight risk given her immense wealth and international connections.

This piece originally appeared in UpliftingToday.com and is used by permission.

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